The media’s role
Last week the Indus Resource Centre (IRC) and the Sindh Education Foundation held a joint consultative roundtable — the second such event in a series — to study the impact…
Social media empowers anti-mining activists
Facebook and other social networks are making it easier for anti-mining activists to derail projects, helping them get their message out and organise more quickly against an industry that is…
Towards media reforms?
While there is much hand-wringing in society on the powerful and irresponsible role the media has assumed for itself in Pakistan, little attention was paid by the media itself to…
Raids and reports
The people of Pakistan eagerly awaited answers to critical questions in the Abbottabad Commission Report. Was Osama bin Laden residing in the Abbottabad compound? The commission declared that OBL had…
Suppressed reports
Governments set up inquiries to allay public disquiet; whether over a financial scandal, a case of ministerial corruption or a military disaster. But, with the proverbial shortness of public memory,…
Media matters
There used to be a certain reserve around the business of news. Whether great journalism or mere propaganda, the reports in a newspaper were seldom hysterical. Of course, that changed…
Of lies, media spins and the US targeting our nukes
To learn firsthand how reality loses its relevancy in the media-spin age has been an experience which explains why so many news reports eventually reveal themselves as having not an…
Measuring the media
When Bushra Gohar, one of the bright stars of the National Assembly, entered politics as a member of the Awami National Party, she did not know that “I am an…
Defending air superiority
When a cake was cut to celebrate the historical victory of the brave armed forces of Pakistan, uniquely, during my PIA flight PK-300 from Karachi to Islamabad, the entire plane…
Perilous hour
THE latest crisis in India-Pakistan relations is the fifth in the past 25 years. Each crisis has been more complex and involved dangerous ramifications, which made it hard even when tensions eased…
